The Nation: The Calley Affair (Contd.)

WHEN Richard Nixon announced that he would release Lieut. William Calley
Jr. from the Fort Benning stockade to house arrest and then added that
he intended to review the Calley case before final sentence is carried
out, he left several interesting things unsaid. One was that two days
before he reportedly awoke at 2 a.m. to wrestle with his conscience
over the Calley affair, the President discussed congressional distress
at the guilty verdict by telephone with his party's leader in the
House, Representative Gerald Ford of Michiganalthough the White House
insists it was...